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Who Forgot to Tell Us that Linux is a Copy of UNIX?

According to legend, the priestess of Apollo at the Delphic Oracle was supposed to have delivered wild, frenzied, sometimes nonsensical prophecies after breathing mystical vapors rising from the ground beneath her three-legged stool. We're guessing something similar must have happened in Utah on Wednesday, because the words coming from the witness box in Judge Kimball's courtroom were certainly wild, frenzied, and most definitely nonsensical.

Now, we're journalists, not psychologists, so we'll refrain from making judgments about Mr. McBride's need for a mental health review, but we're certainly left wondering how — with perjury in Federal Court carrying a five-year prison sentence — one walks in, swears to tell the truth, and proceeds to say something like that. The kicker, though, is that Senior VP Chris Sontag took the stand before McBride, and testified that he had no knowledge of any UnixWare code in Linux — and Darl didn't know it, because witnesses are being sequestered from other witnesses' testimony. Given Jude Kimball's less-than-tolerant stance for SCO's shenanigans, we foresee hot water in Mr. McBride's future...